How OEMs and EMS providers wanting to grow remain competitive while building sustainable business models and keeping an eye on the future.
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Cost Reductions, Finance
Artificial intelligence provides transcendence for electronics manufacturing expansion
Artificial intelligence exceeding EMS manufacturing industry expectations
Faster, more accurate RFQ quote turnaround with fewer EMS staff, while reducing OEM new program launch to just 4 days v. 14-21 days previously. Click to read more findings.
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Tariff impact across technology sector raises telecom, networking hardware pricing
Chart details percentage pricing increases for hardware, highlighting changes based on tariffs, per OEM company, and product.
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EMS manufacturing metric: Materials work-in-progress (WIP) percent raw materials
Inventory turns are easily, and often, manipulated. Metric focuses EMS provider material purchasing cost and helps manage direct labor, costly EMS indirect labor workflow.
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Errors in EMS manufacturer OEM quote package pricing and sourcing costs
EMS provider opportunities for errors and slow, or lack of, execution happen regularly. Every hour. Every day. We identify some key areas OEMs should hold their EMS manufacturers accountable.
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Manufacturing trade war or overdue market correction?
You make sure you are focusing your business to be consistent with current financial regulations and existing trade policies. Yet, products that once owned more than 90% of some markets are now, for the first time, indefensible.
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EMS fallacy of optimizing materials cost of goods sold (MCOGs)
Contrary to popular EMS industry belief, nearly every EMS provider today does not purchase components and materials using procurement economies of scale (volume), across multiple customer programs, in an effort to achieve lower MCOGs for your OEM customer program. The …
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Strip mall ownership of a high tech industry
EMS manufactureres create cozy relationships sub-contracting with third-party EMS providers, often without the OEM cusomter knowing their program and IP are exposed.
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How manufacturing supply chains free up working capital and increase profitability
OEMs drive EMS manufacturing workflow accuracy and increase profitability asking these questions.
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China electronic manufacturing tariffs, USA reshoring, Vietnam, Philippines, Mexico
Some EMS providers are forecasting direct labor in Mexico will be 30% cheaper than direct labor in China in five years. Vietname direct labor is also changing.
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